The Progressive Review — a liberal publication at the University — is one of 14 campus publications across the country receiving a grant from the Center for American Progress (CAP), a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C.
The $2,500 grant comes as part of the Campus Progress program, which is being launched today by CAP.
Campus Progress aims to support progressive movements on college campuses and was founded partly to counter the $35 million conservative groups give annually to college organizations.
"Our goal is to support the progressive alternative on college campuses," CAP campus programs director Ben Hubbard said. "There currently isn't the national infrastructure supporting progressive publications."
Liberal publications at Dartmouth College, Yale University and Cornell University are among the 10 that will receive funding from Campus Progress, and groups at four other universities have received grants to found new publications.
Recently, conservative publications on campus have received substantial attention for the support they receive from national organizations.
"[Campus Progress] is a drop in the bucket," Hubbard said, "but you have to start somewhere."
Paul Thompson '06, editor-in-chief of The Princeton Tory, said the Tory receives "significant" funding from the Collegiate Network, a conservative think tank.
Thompson doesn't see this new CAP initiative as a problem, however.
Instead, he said he looks forward to the "robust debate" the funding will spur.
Asheesh Siddique '07, editor-in-chief of The Progressive Review, said, "The grant has invigorated us and given us the platform to resuscitate the publication."
The Progressive Review currently publishes online with daily updates and receives 500 hits a day.
Siddique said he plans to use the money to get the paper back in print by the end of the semester.
Siddique applied for the grant after contacting CAP last summer about funding.
"We were looking to get institutional support from the progressive community," Siddique said. "We added ideas about how we could go about getting college progressives involved in this process."
Many college publications submitted applications, Hubbard said, including Princeton's Idealistic Nation — which did not receive a grant from the program.
College Democrats president Frances Schendle said there is a "huge need for funding progressive college students."
"I think the Democratic Party is revamping the extent to which they support the youth progressive movement," Schendle said.
In addition to supporting campus publications, Campus Progress will include a web publication, a speaker's bureau and a conference this summer.
"The goal is to build a [progressive] movement throughout the country," Siddique said.
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